Editing Garage rock (section)

====Primitivist avant-garde acts====
{{See also|Experimental rock}}

Certain acts conveyed a world view markedly removed from the implicit innocence of much psychedelia and suburban garage, often infusing their work with [[subversive]] political or philosophical messages,{{sfn|Woods|2017}} dabbling in [[Experimental music|experimental]] musical forms and concepts considered at the time to be decidedly out of the mainstream.<ref name="Unterberger (Velvets Bio.)">{{cite web|last1=Unterberger|first1=Richie|title=The Velvet Underground|website=AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-velvet-underground-mn0000840402/biography|access-date=June 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170318031311/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-velvet-underground-mn0000840402/biography|archive-date=March 18, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>  Such artists shared certain characteristics with the garage bands in their use of primitivistic instrumentation and arrangements, while displaying psychedelic rock's affinity for exploration—creating more urbanized, intellectual, and [[avant garde]] forms of primitivist rock, sometimes characterized as variants of garage rock.{{sfnm|1a1=Billet|1y=2016|2a1=Seavey|2y=2013|3a1=Dougan|3y=2003}}  New York City was the home to several such groups. [[The Fugs]], who formed in 1963, were one of rock's first experimental bands and its core members were singer, poet, and social activist [[Ed Sanders]], along with [[Tuli Kupferberg]] and [[Ken Weaver (musician)|Ken Weaver]].<ref name="Unterberger (Fugs Bio.)">{{cite web|last1=Unterberger|first1=Richie|title=The Fugs|website=AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-fugs-mn0000763301/biography|access-date=June 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160922172933/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-fugs-mn0000763301/biography|archive-date=September 22, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>  They specialized in a satirical mixture of amateurish garage rock, [[jug band|jug]], [[folk music|folk]], and psychedelic laced with leftist political commentary.<ref name="Unterberger (Fugs Bio.)"/><ref name="Raggett (Fugs' 1st)">{{cite web|last1=Raggett|first1=Ned|title=The Fugs (Review)|website=AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-fugs-mn0000763301|access-date=June 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160711051918/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-fugs-mn0000763301|archive-date=July 11, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|Dougan|2003}}  In a 1970 interview, Ed Sanders became the first known musician to describe his music as "punk rock".{{sfn|Shapiro|2006|p=492}}<ref name="Essor-Winston (Sanders/Punk)">{{cite web|last1=Essor-Winston|first1=Marissa|title=The American Punk Rock Movement: From the 1970's On|url=https://prezi.com/hwq5j9v9ss_n/the-american-punk-rock-movement-from-the-1970s-on/|website=Prezi|access-date=June 12, 2016|date=November 20, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616224645/https://prezi.com/hwq5j9v9ss_n/the-american-punk-rock-movement-from-the-1970s-on/|archive-date=June 16, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:The_monks_1966.jpg|thumb|[[The Monks]]'s music imbued garage rock with [[Avant-garde music|avant-garde]] elements.]]

[[The Velvet Underground]], whose roster included [[Lou Reed]], are now generally considered the foremost experimental rock group of the period.<ref name="Unterberger (Velvets Bio.)"/>  At the time of recording their first album, they were involved with [[Andy Warhol]], who produced some its tracks, and his assemblage of "scenesters" at [[the Factory]], including model-turned-singer [[Nico]].<ref name="Deming (Velvets 1st)">{{cite web|last1=Deming|first1=Mark|title=The Velvet Underground & Nico|website=AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-velvet-underground-nico-mw0001955423|access-date=June 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531232021/http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-velvet-underground-nico-mw0001955423|archive-date=May 31, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>  She shared billing with them on the resulting album, ''[[The Velvet Underground & Nico]]''.<ref name="Deming (Velvets 1st)"/>  The album's lyrics, though generally apolitical, depict the world of hard drugs in songs such as "[[I'm Waiting for the Man]]" and "[[Heroin (The Velvet Underground song)|Heroin]]", and other topics considered taboo at the time.<ref name="Deming (Velvets 1st)"/>

Outside of New York were [[the Monks]] from Germany, whose members were former US servicemen who chose to remain in Germany, where in 1965 they developed an experimental sound on their album ''[[Black Monk Time]]''.{{sfn|Billet|2016}}<ref name="Unterberger (Monks Bio.)">{{cite web|last1=Unterberger|first1=Richie|title=The Monks|website=AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-monks-mn0000404345/biography|access-date=June 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160323133900/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-monks-mn0000404345/biography|archive-date=March 23, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Deming (Monks/album)">{{cite web|last1=Deming|first1=Mark|title=The Monks - Black Monk Time (Review)|website=AllMusic|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/black-monk-time-mw0000091408|access-date=June 12, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605041128/http://www.allmusic.com/album/black-monk-time-mw0000091408|archive-date=June 5, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>  The group, who sometimes wore [[habit (clothing)|habits]] and partially shaven [[tonsure]]s, specialized in a style featuring chanting and hypnotic percussion.<ref name="Unterberger (Monks Bio.)"/>